Diaspora Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Transnational Agency and Migration

   Actors, Movements, and Social Support

   Edited by Stefan Köngeter, Wendy Smith

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Migrants, both spatially and mentally, no longer settle in only one national territory but interact or move across borders regularly, profoundly challenging the nation-state and the image of society as a container. This volume explores the ways in which migrants connect social worlds...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora

   Revisiting the boat people

   Edited by Yuk Wah Chan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Rewriting the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean

   Beyond Disciplinary and National Boundaries

   Edited by Robert Adams Jr.

   This volume considers the African Diaspora through the underexplored Afro-Latino experience in the Caribbean and South America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches such as feminism and Atlantic studies, the authors explore the production of historical and contemporary identities and...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Methodologies on the Move

   The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research

   Edited by Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist, Devrimsel D. Nergiz

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This volume establishes a new agenda for approaches to migration research and the corresponding methodologies. A wide range of international contributors focus on the question of how to overcome the so-called 'methodological nationalism' within empirical studies on migration. They address two main...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
5. Accounting for Ethnic and Racial Diversity

   The Challenge of Enumeration

   Edited by Patrick Simon, Victor Piché

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   By the end of the 20th century, the ethnic question had resurfaced in public debate. Every country had been affected by what is commonly known as cultural pluralism, as a result of conflicts interpreted from an ethnic perspective, for instance, in the Balkans and central Africa; nationalist...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
6. Afro-Nordic Landscapes

   Engaging Blackness in Northern Europe

   Edited by Michael McEachrane

   Series: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora

   This volume examines the growing presence of Africans in Northern Europe in relation to national narratives, racism, and the African Diaspora, mapping the emerging multicultural realities of Europe....

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Belonging in Europe - The African Diaspora and Work

   Edited by Caroline Bressey, Hakim Adi

   This publication does not just mark the presence of black people in Europe, but brings research to a new stage by making connections across Europe through the experience of work and labour. The working experience for black peoples in Europe was not just confined to ports and large urban areas –...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. Chinatowns in a Transnational World

   Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon

   Edited by Vanessa Künnemann, Ruth Mayer

   This book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the United States which informed the development of these urban sites. Despite obvious...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies

   Canada, Taiwan, and the United States

   Edited by Eric Fong, Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, Nancy Denton

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant receiving countries, such as the United States and Canada, but occurs also in many other...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
10. Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Philip F. Kelly

    Rural life in Southeast Asia is being transformed by new and intensifying processes of migration and mobility. Migration out of rural areas creates new forms of class mobility, familial relations, production processes and income. Migration into rural areas creates a new and sometimes marginalized...

    Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge